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22 Feb 2019

Central Bank Digital Currencies: Preliminary Legal Observations

Hossein Nabilou

Cryptocurrencies and their potential impact on central banking have sparked a policy debate on addressing their potential risks to the banking and monetary systems. By highlighting the functional...

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  • Commercial Law
11 Feb 2019

English translation of the Mt Gox judgment on the legal status of bitcoin prepared by the Digital Assets Project

Louise Gullifer QC (Hon) | Megumi Hara | Charles W. Mooney, Jr.

The Digital Assets project, run through the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College, has produced an annotated English translation of the judgment of the Tokyo District Court in August...

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19 Oct 2018
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The Evolution of Currency: Cash to Cryptos to Sovereign Digital Currencies

Anton Didenko | Ross P. Buckley

Modern payment systems have changed considerably over the past decade. In developing countries, so-called ‘electronic money’, issued and used on mobile phones, provided a viable digital alternative...

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04 Sep 2018

How Blockchains Increase Artificial Responsibility

Adam Kolber

There has been an explosion of articles in the popular press about the dangers of artificial intelligence (‘AI’). Some fear that machines with human-like intelligence could someday develop goals at...
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  • Corporate Finance
22 Jun 2018

The Crypto Puzzle

One of the central predictions of the law and finance literature is that strong investor protection laws will promote the development of strong markets. This prediction rests on the observation that...

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  • Financial Regulation
19 Mar 2018

Ignorance, Debt and Cryptocurrencies: The old and the new in the law and economics of concurrent currencies

Hossein Nabilou | André Prüm

Decentralized, permissionless and blockchain-based cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology are said to have as transformative an impact on value as the invention of the internet had on...

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  • Corporate Finance
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03 Jan 2018

Crypto-Securities Regulation: ICOs, Token Sales and Cryptocurrencies under EU Financial Law

Philipp Hacker | Chris Thomale

Cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and ethereum, have not only risen to public attention as novel means of payments. Rather, as we explain in a recent article, the current hype is fueled by financial...

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  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Regulation
06 Dec 2017

Legal Challenges of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO)

Iris Barsan

Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), a term intentionally mirroring Initial Public Offerings (IPO), seem to be the new hype of the virtual currency community leading to an all-time high of the bitcoin of...

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  • Corporate Governance
18 Aug 2017

Corporate Governance for Complex Cryptocurrencies

Philipp Hacker

The Bitcoin blockchain has just forked into two rivaling chains; the same split happened to the Ethereum blockchain after its hard fork of July 2016. The development of these, and other,...

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  • Corporate Finance
17 Aug 2017

SEC Confirms That Some Initial Coin Offerings Are Illegal Unregistered Securities Offerings

Davis Polk

In a much-anticipated action, on July 25 the SEC issued a Section 21(a) report of its investigation into an offering of digital tokens by “The DAO,” an unincorporated virtual organization. Though...

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24 Apr 2017

How Blockchain Technology Will Impact the Digital Economy

Christian Catalini

The Platform of the Future? The survival of any organization depends on its ability to outperform competitors and marketplaces in attracting and rewarding talent, ideas and capital. As communication...

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  • Financial Regulation
12 Oct 2016

Blockchain: A Polish Perspective

Noerr

Recent events across the EU, and elsewhere in the world, expose growing attempts at implementing blockchain technology. This, combined with investment dynamics in the IT/fintech sector, raises new...

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